Speaking at the weekend about the need to reduce fuel loads in forests,Mr Morrison said there was time before the next scheduled meeting of the Council of Australian Governments"to bring forward some immediate steps and for those to be considered by premiers before moving to broader-scale reviews".
"You've got to deal with hazard management in national parks ... this,of course,will be one of the things that we will consider when premiers come together after they've been dealing with the fires,"he said.
Mr Morrison will meet state leaders to discuss clearing more land and conducting more hazard reduction burns,which he pointed out on Sunday were"run and overseen entirely by state governments",as are other bushfire issues such as planning laws and building codes.
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But Associate Professor Philip Zylstra,from Wollongong University's Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions,said fuel loads in forests,and state government management,were not responsible for the catastrophic fire season.
"I think that for the federal government to say there needs to be a focus on hazard-reduction burning at this stage appears to be passing the buck to the states,"he said.
"The reality is we are at a peak of prescribed burning by state agencies. More has been done in the past decade than in many,many decades."